'Chelsea are already trembling’ ran one Marca headline on Thursday after Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid team reached the semi-finals.
‘When Madrid can start to smell the final, their rivals should be praying to all the saints’ the triumphal column continued.
But not all the coverage looking ahead to the two teams’ first ever meeting in the Champions League was quite as bombastic.
Elsewhere Real Madrid pundits and fans were torn between believing they have one foot in the final after seeing off Liverpool, and being wary of underestimating Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea in the semis.